02.19.2013 | Bronx Stability Impact Grant
We Are The Bronx Fellowship will award a grant of up to $1,000 to a Bronx-based organization which fosters community stability through anti-violence, supportive housing, and/or arts & culture initiatives. Read More
01.02.2013 | Green Business Plan Competition
Calling all BEST Grads and students. Looking to start your own green business? Get coaching and seed money from SSBx and Capital One Bank. Apply now and see your business grow. Read More
12.20.2012 | SSBx Helps More Homeowners Save
Through a new partnership with Neighborhood Housing Services, Green Jobs-Green New York is helping more homeowners get energy efficient retrofits. Read about how we’re helping more homeowners save. Read More
12.19.2012 | BEST Grads: Building and Starting Careers
Michael Mendez, a graduate of our second-ever BEST Ecology class, was promoted this month to Conservation Manager at Bronx River Alliance. Meanwhile, Pablo Villegas, a recent B4B grad, starts on a new career path. Read More
12.18.2012 | Kudos For CoolRoofs
From July through October, SSBx’s social enterprise — SmartRoofs — employed a dozen BEST Academy graduates five days a week who cleaned and coated roofs from the Bronx to Manhattan to Brooklyn as part of NYC °CoolRoofs. The results? A resounding success. Read More
11.30.2012 | SSBx Featured in Upcoming Documentary
BEST Students Build Green Solutions Water Blues – Green Solutions, a documentary about innovators creating green solutions to urban flooding, features about a dozen of our BEST Ecology (BECO) students building a rain garden in the Bronx. Read More
11.29.2012 | Students Track Air Pollution with AirCasting
Thanks to a grant from the EPA, SSBx’s education department will be launching a new program that lets students use handheld air-quality sensors to track air pollution in their neighborhood. Read More
11.28.2012 | BEST Graduates Help with Post-Sandy Clean-up
Two dozen BEST grads have been employed helping clean up the mess from Sandy. See what they’ve been doing and how their training prepared them for disaster relief. Read More
10.31.2012 | Sixth Annual Hunts Point Hustle
We’d deeply grateful for the support of our wonderful sponsors who provided funding, prizes, volunteers and more. Their support helped make the Hustle one of the year’s best community events in the South Bronx. Read More
09.25.2012 | Hunts Point Landing Opens
Hunts Point Landing, the latest addition to the South Bronx Greenway to be completed, officially opened on Monday, September 24th. Read More
08.22.2012 | Newest BEST Grads Ready for Work
In July of 2012, SSBx celebrated the 39 newest graduates of BEST Academy’s BEST ECO (BECO) and Best for Buildings (B4B) programs at a lunchtime ceremony. Read More
08.21.2012 | NYC Honors SSBx
SSBx staff headed to Gracie Mansion on July 10th to receive the 2012 NYC Neighborhood Achievement Award for BEST Academy. Read More
08.11.2012 | Meet Angela Tovar, Community Greening Planner
From helping maintain the South Bronx Greenway to fighting for the removal of the Sheridan Expressway, our new Community Greening Planner, Angela Tovar, is dedicated to improvement. “I grew up in an industrial neighborhood similar to Hunts Point, and am committed to quality-of-life issues,” she says. “I saw the job description for Community Greening Planner and I thought, This is my job. I’m getting this job.” Read More
08.02.2012 | SSBx Wins First Citywide Contract
Throughout the summer and fall of 2012, BEST Academy grads were working high above the city, painting rooftops white. We were one of two organizations working with NYC °CoolRoofs, a collaboration among a number of partners — including NYC Service and the NYC Department of Buildings — to promote and facilitate the cooling of New York City’s rooftops. Read More
08.01.2012 | Home, Snug Home
Aurelia Greene, a long-time Bronx resident and Deputy Bronx Borough President, had to keep her thermostat in her three-family, 100-year-old brick house on 80 degrees all winter to get even a little heat. She was paying nearly $2,000 a month to Con Ed. Still, she felt cold all winter. And then she heard about the Bronx Energy Efficiency program. Read More
08.01.2012 | Students Take to the Trees
Sustainable South Bronx partnered with high school students from Fieldston Ethical Culture School to host Hooray for Creativi-tree! a community celebration of city trees. Read More
07.30.2012 | FabLab Wraps Up Six-Year Run
Two dozen Bronx high school students completed the final semester of SSBX’s six-year FabLab program—a hands-on practicum in sustainable design. Like all of our educational programs, FabLab combined theoretical instruction with hands-on learning. We’re proud of the six-year run, and all the students who participated. Read More